My Banana is Much Bigger than Yours

[Octafish]

Rev. Harry Cook has the right idea:

Arts, Beats and Ammo

How pistol-packers got Royal Oak to let them come in locked and loaded

By Jack Lessenberry
MetroTimes

"... It is important to recognize that ... the right to keep and bear arms is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for any purpose." —Guess who

SNIP...

None of the above. Those words were in fact written by Samuel Alito, one of the most right-wing justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, one of George W. Bush's perpetual gifts to our nation. Alito was, in fact, the author of the majority opinion in the high court's ruling in McDonald vs. City of Chicago, a landmark decision handed down two months ago. By a narrow 5-4 ruling, the justices struck down a law banning handgun ownership in Chicago.

With this ruling the court seems to be saying that virtually all of us have a constitutional right to keep and own pistols for self-defense. Personally, I think that's terrible. (However, the court appears to have left intact bans on possession by criminals and the mentally ill. And even the court's conservative majority is indicating that there are places where even those allowed to have handguns should not be allowed to take them.)

SNIP...

Yet that has been perverted by the gun nuts to mean that everyone has the right to own any death machine and take it anywhere, no matter how powerful or inappropriate it is.

That's the position of a band of creeps called Michigan Open Carry, who went to the city of Royal Oak and demanded to be allowed to walk around carrying guns at the Arts, Beats and Eats festival, which is moving from bankrupt Pontiac to Royal Oak this year.

SNIP...

The Rev. Harry Cook, a retired Episcopal priest who is more or less the closest thing Royal Oak has to a philosopher-statesman, has proclaimed his intention to wear a banana to AB&E, and then swagger up to any pistol-packing character and say "mine's bigger than yours."

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http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=15309

If I go out there this weekend, I'm wearing a banana.

[valerief]

1. Ya cants haves funs widouts da guns! Guns, guns, guns, guns.

What's more fun than a barrel of guns? Two barrels of guns!!!!

I give my preschooler TWO guns to take to daycare. One for her and one for a friend, cuz you can't learn to share bullets too early.

Ah, I loves me some guns.

Guns, guns, guns, guns. I'm just nutty about 'em.

Just nutty.

:crazy:

[Octafish]

5. It's not as if the Red Coats are coming or anybody for that matter.

"They" are worse.



The Church Committee found out about a secret CIA gun that shoots poison darts.

[walldude]

2. Can't see a banana now without thinking of the genius that is

Kirk Cameron...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

gotta wonder what they think of the Pineapple...

[valerief]

3. Oh, what a freakin' piece of work that was!!!!!

:rofl:

[Octafish]

6. That IS funny: Grok the nana.

Warmonger by John Carroll

Here's a bit on the elemental nature of power...

Money Trumps Peace. Always.

[Radical Activist]

4. Ironically,

I once had a gray banana mistaken for a pistol! But it all worked out in the end.

[Octafish]

8. Everybody must be happy when they see you, too, Radical Activist!

The thing about Arts, Beats & Eats is that it's a family event. The cowards ont he city council were cowed by gun nuts when they voted to allow them into their festival.

The gun lovers think that no harm can come from honest, law-abiding, gun toters. I hope they are correct, remembering what happens when people drink beer after beer after beer on a hot day.

I'll pack a banana, but I won't bring my kids. I don't even let them visit friends whose families own guns. Sorry gun rights activist DUers, but accidents do happen. I've seen enough adults holding their clenched fists up at their temples, crying, "I am so sorry. I am so sorry." As far as I know, that sentiment is yet to bring a dead person back to life.

[Lagomorph]

7. Watch out for WMDs

[Octafish]

9. LOL! That's beautiful photograph of the Stryker Banana System, a product of the Carlile Grope.

Royal Oak's been attacked by Huntington Woods. So, we must invade Ferndale so they don't bring their old peels here.

My problem is with this nation's gun mentality. One guy tried to do something about it, way back when...

"I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well." -- President John F. Kennedy, remarks at Amherst College, October 26, 1963.

President Kennedy was killed by gunfire.